UK Finance News

As the UK readies itself for the General Election, desperate for a leader strong enough to make the decisions that will pull the country out of the current crisis and offer a vision of industrial growth and prosperity for us all, isn’t it a drag to read that our commonwealth cousins in Australia are having [...]

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In the current financial environment where the traditional areas of investment such as property and stock markets have faltered or crashed over the past couple of years, many of us seem content to play it safe by keeping any savings that we may have tucked up in banks, earning little or no interest.
It is fair [...]

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It is a very fine line to tread for the State Owned Banks, do they offer financial assistance in the form of mortgages at cut rates to lenders in a bid to re-vitalise the property market as requested of them by the UK Government, or should they protect the tax payers interest by offering deals [...]

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The UK’s Furness and Harpenden building societies have announced that they have signed up to compete for savers’ cash with Europe’s first and largest online interest rate auction house for time deposits, licuro.com.They make up seven UK societies that have signed up to the scheme that offers large lump sum investors the best time deposit [...]

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In a survey of the UK’s leading mortgage lenders conducted by The Independent, it is reported that home owners are more likely to be making bigger payments on mortgages than increasing spending elsewhere.
The report says that more customers in the UK are making inroads into their mortgage debt, with many households keeping repayments at the [...]

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